Quelques années après les événements de La mémoire dans la peau, David Webb est devenu professeur d'études asiatiques à Georgetown, Kentucky. Mais, un jour, il devient la cible d'un assassin aussi habile que lui et la CIA lui met sur le dos le meurtre de deux de ses collègues. Webb, pour sauver sa peau, doit à nouveau endosser l'identité de Jason Bourne et retrouver sa détermination de tueur.
SHADOW WARRIOR. The ancient Japanese art of death is practiced by a select few. Of those young men who are chosen to train in the way of the shadow warrior, most will fail. Those who pass these trials, the Ninja, become the silent assassins, lonely guardians, and unseen watchers of legend. But rarer still are those masters of the shadow craft, the Shiro - those whose fearsome abilities are matched only by their rigid code of honour. Men like Nicholas Linnear... FLOATING CITY. An inland empire ruled by a mercenary king hidden at the heart of the Vietnamese jungle. But the shadow warrior Nicholas Linnear believes that the Floating City lies at the heart of a vast terrorist plot. And he may be the only person who can infiltrate this criminal stronghold...
Brian Aldiss, with the kind of science-fiction fantasy of which he is one of the finest exponents alive today. - Sunday Telegraph Joe Bodenland, a 21st century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction may as easily have congress as Bodenland himself manages to make love to Mary Shelley. TheGuardian Brian Aldiss's monster is a beaut. The eerie, icy, last confrontation between it (and its mate) and Joe with his felder car and swivel-gun is intense and vivid - The Sunday Times
Lustbader returns to the phenomenon he originated with The Ninja. For years, Saigo's evil and the Mido's magic have failed to conquer Nicholas Linnear. Now he is about to be changed by the times, by love, and by destiny. He faces the one enemy he never expected: himself.
